Sunset by the River

by Sameer Saxena

As she continued to speak, her smiling face started to please my eyes, and her voice echoed in the auditorium like a mesmerizing melody of flute music directly synchronizing with my heartbeats.

That shy smile she gave when complimented was enough to distract even the deepest meditation sessions of Indian sages,

It was the first time I was going on a date… well; technically it was still one-sided, but I didn’t care.

I wanted to tell her how her hair, which were visibly wet as she might have just bathed, looked like strings holding her pearl of an innocently clear and glowing face.

My right arm went around her waist once we were face-to-face, and we started dancing to a beautiful piece of slow, romantic instrumental. Her head tilted down a little. She was maybe a bit nervous because she had perhaps never danced like this before.

“The only thing that distracts us from our misery is the utter realness of the nature. It does not deceive us. It just presents itself as it is. No artificial behavior, no false expectations. It just conveys one message, be in the present and never expect anything in return.”

“Spirituality involves the belief in a divine energy which empowers your soul; whereas believing in it blindly for miracles and expecting things to just happen, to fall into place magically, that is superstition.